Cryptocurrency news - March 12, 2018. Part 2

📊 CBOE futures for bitcoins will close on March 14. At the moment, four monthly bitcoins are traded on the Chicago exchange, the nearest of which expires this Wednesday. Over the past week, it traded between $ 8,380 at a low level and to $ 11,710 at its maximum with a difference of 28.4%.

💴 Coincheck begins payment of compensation to victims of the January hack. In total, the site intends to reimburse 260,000 users who lost NEM deposits during the break-in, about $ 420 million at a rate two times higher than the current one ($ 0.83 per coin). Today, the Japanese exchange has partially resumed trading and launched trading and withdrawals for Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Ripple and Litecoin.

🖥 Media giant Thomson Reuters will monitor the mood on kriptornke using artificial intelligence. The company announced the launch of a new product - MarketPsych Indices. Based on the analysis of news and rumors from more than 400 data sources by artificial intelligence, traders will be able to choose the most appropriate time for making investments.

⚡️ Venture funds have invested more than $ 900 million in environmental block-start-ups over the past year. According to GTM Research, currently there are about 120 block-projects for the electric power industry in the world. Only since January last year in this area 54 new enterprises were opened.

⛏ The European Union will not prohibit mining. European Commissioner for Digital Economy Maria Gabriel said that mining is not illegal activity and is not monitored by the European Commission. The production of crypto-currency must correspond only to the standard rules of energy consumption.